PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF GHANA NEW YORK

How does PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF GHANA NEW YORK compare with other worship facility buildings in New York City?

The latest disclosures cover 370 worship facility buildings in New York City, out of 48,310 buildings citywide. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF GHANA NEW YORK's ENERGY STAR score of 49 compares with an average of 43 across the 224 that report a score; it scores higher than 57% of them and lower than 43%. Its site EUI of 28.9 kBtu/ft² is about half of the average of 62.6 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 2.7 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 41% below the group average of 4.6 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 26,944 sq ft, it is about 40% below the average floor area of 44,868 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1910, 27 years earlier than the group's average year built (1937). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 1,035 worship facility buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 50 and a site EUI of 47.8 kBtu/ft².

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 49 mean?

ENERGY STAR scores run from 1 to 100 and are computed by the EPA's Portfolio Manager as a percentile against similar buildings nationwide, adjusted for climate, size and use: a score of 49 means the building performs better than about 49% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 49 falls in band D — lowest band (1–54). It sits 26 points below 75, the threshold for ENERGY STAR certification. In New York City, 43% of scored buildings are at 75 or above.

Site energy-use intensity (EUI) is the energy a building uses on site in a year divided by its floor area, in thousand Btu per square foot — lower is more efficient. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF GHANA NEW YORK's 28.9 kBtu/ft² across 26,944 sq ft works out to about 0.8 billion Btu (228 MWh-equivalent) in 2023. Its source EUI of 59.6 kBtu/ft² also counts the energy lost generating and delivering that power, which is why it is higher. The disclosure also reports 133,286 kWh of electricity, 877 therms of natural gas and 868 thousand gallons of water for the year.

Which law requires PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF GHANA NEW YORK to report its energy use?

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF GHANA NEW YORK reports under Local Law 84 (LL84), the legal basis of New York City's Energy and Water Data Disclosure program, which publishes each covered building's annual benchmarking results. The record shown here is the report-year 2023 disclosure (source record nyc:29578532:2023). Under Local Law 97, buildings over 25,000 sq ft face carbon caps with fines of $268 per metric ton of CO₂e over the limit, phasing in from 2024.